
CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW 
The Chrysanthemum Society of America will hold their 
annual Convention and Show as usual. This year it will be in New 
York City, November 5, 6, 7, 8. 
Arrange to exhibit for the benefit of the industry and 
yourself. The Show is both for our members, the trade, and on 
exhibition to the public. 
It is a worthy effort at all times and 
now more so for many reasons because of present conditions. 
Be a part of the Show! 
For full particulars, contact Secretary Gus Poesch, 
Columbus, Ohio. 
Westwood Ave., 
Exhibit and attend the Convention! 
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A Pocketbook for You 
We are of course referring to the pocketbook 
plant—Calceolaria. The showy, brilliantly hued 
and spotted flowers of this plant are extremely 
attractive and in these days of heavy taxation, 
suggest the need of ample pocketbooks to 
save cash to run the war. 
Besides, it gives a lot for the money—try it 
on your customers! Planted now, from 
214 in., a 6 in. plant will be had for Easter. 
Service for the Asking 
It may be out of our line, but many custom- 
ers want this or that which is difficult to get 
in their locality and call upon us for a little 
help. It may be a bag of Nitrophoska of which 
we have been sold out, but we picked up two 
bags the other day from an importer and out 
it went promptly. It may be a couple of 
lengths of greenhouse hose which we didn’t 
have, but managed to find in some rubber 
supply house and now this customer can keep 
on watering. 
Whatever we can do for you, don’t hesitate 
to call on us even if it is out of the usual line 
of duty. We are glad to help. 
Flower Legends—Carnation 
In our grandparents’ day, the carnation was 
known as the pink, because the more popular 
varieties were pink in color. In that very 
fact, some essayed to read the occasion for 
its later name, for pink is the hue of carne, 
or flesh; but we are also told that carnation 
is no more than coronation, because the spicy- 
smelling blossom was used for crowns and gar- 
lands with which the ancients decked them- 
selves. The flower was held in affection, too, 
because cooks had learned to use it as a 
seasoning for dishes; and experts in drinking 
also found that it gave tang to beer and wine. 
The flowers were candied, like rose-leaves, and 
these conserves “‘wonderfully above measure 
do comfort the heart.” There is a popular be- 
lief that the plant springs from the graves of 
lovers, hence it has come to be used as a fu- 
neral ornament; but it should also be a flower 
of rejoicing inasmuch as it is one of those 
that appeared on earth for the first time when 
Christ was born. 
The Italian house of Ronsecco displays the 
carnation in its armorial bearings for the rea- 
son that it was a parting gift of the Countess 
Margharita Ronsecco to her lover, Orlando, 
when he was hurried from her side on the eve 
of their bridal, to rescue Christ’s tomb from 
the Saracens. A year later, a soldier brought 
her news that Orlando had fallen in battle, 
and he returned the lock of her shining hair 
that Orlando had carried as his talisman, to- 
gether with the withered carnation, which his 
blood had changed from white to red. Mar- 
gharita discovered that the flower had begun 
to set its seed, and these she planted in memory 
of her beloved. The plant budded, and there 
was revealed a white flower, such as she had 
given to her knight, but with a red centre 
like none ever before seen in a carnation. 
